Write-on

After a very full session last week, with a record(?) of eleven entries for the Mug of the Month contest (congratulations Celia Scully!), our members are recovering this week, and we can catch up on items that have been held over from past sessions. We also have an intriguing poem from our potential new member…

Thursday will bring this year’s first Mug of the Month competition, with no less than eleven entries. The key words BOLT and CLUTCH have inspired a wide variety of texts, and we can anticipate a close contest to find Mugsy’s new home for the coming four weeks. With contestants from three different countries – Ireland,…

After last week’s lively start into the New Year, we can look forward to another session with a diversity of submissions by our members. While we concentrated on novels last week, this week we’ll be looking at poems, as well as a new song by Bill Geoghegan. In prose we have a chapter from a…

Happy New Year to all members, supporters and guests! We’re looking forward to lots of new writing; our opening session for this year shows promise of this wish being fulfilled. Several members are engaged in writing a novel, and this is reflected in our programme for coming Thursday, when we hope to look at synopses,…

This Thursday our session will begin 15 minutes earlier, at 6.45 GMT, and run on to about 9.15 GMT. Why? It’s our Christmas Special, and a glance at the scheduled programme below will raise the follow-up query: Will that be long enough?! Guests will be welcome to join us on the night! Friends will supply…

Our nine literary contributions this week are the work of six members, an honourable result in view of Christmas laying heavy claims on everyone’s time. We can look forward to five poems, and a further extract from Geraldine’s amusing Aunt Bibi series. Frank’s short stories usually provoke lively discussions, while Mary Hodson, a relatively new…

Poems and short stories set the trend for the coming Thursday’s session, with no fewer than six of the former and four of the latter from eight different authors. This, as well as a short story in progress, from which we will hear a further extract. The standard of writing continues to be of a…

This week brings a full agenda, which is opened with the popular Mug of the Month competition. The keywords WATCH and PLAN have inspired ten members to put fingertip to keyboard. It is always fascinating to see the wide diversity in themes which results when our writers respond to the given words. Three further poems…

After last week’s interesting and instructive presentation of ‘Character Description and Development’ sketches by our members, and Frank’s guidelines excerpted from ‘Story Genius’ by Lisa Cron (2016 Ten Speed Press, Berkeley), a new challenge is due on Thursday: ‘Writing a Love Scene’! Seven brave people have taken the plunge, opened their hearts and entered their…

This week we continue with the new series of Write-On Challenges. The set task was to write a character description of no more than 100 words. We look forward to interesting and enlightening examples of this technique. A futher challenge for next week will also be introduced and explained. Using the Write-On Sessions to broaden…